μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif

Speaking skull tells about previous life, reveals future events, etc.

The dead. · Ghosts and other revenants. · Malevolent return from the dead. · Other malevolent revenants. · view the constellation · filed as E261.1.2

Filed across the traditions
  • India *Thompson-Balys.
  • general Krappe Moyen Age XXVII (1926)
Within the index

Filed under Wandering skull pursues man.

Filed beside it
Ghost's flying head attacks slayer Hero attacked by revenant with half a head, carrying man with half a body. (Cf. E461, E422.1.1, F511.0.5.)

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